Filmmaking

thumb|Arri Alexa, a digital movie camera

A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show (also known as a teleplay), or video game by screenwriters (cf. stage play). Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A screenplay is a form of narration in which the movements, actions, expressions and dialogue of the characters are described in a certain format. Visual or cinematographic cues may be given, as well as scene descriptions and scene changes.

creative and technical post-production processing of film

thumb|Film crew and cast members working together during principal photography

stereoscopic film

first and last hour of sunlight during the day

thumb|right|300px|A storyboard for The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd episode #408

thumb|A studio video editing suite from the early 1990s

phase of film production in which the movie is filmed

film that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative

collection of related films in succession

making a motion picture available to the public

addition of sound effects to visual media

group of people involved in some phase of the making of a film

academic discipline studying film's relationship to reality, the arts, viewers & society

Pre-production is the process of planning some of the elements involved in a film, television show, play, video game, or other performance, as distinct from production and post-production. Pre-production ends when the planning ends and the content starts being produced.

use of digital technology to distribute or project motion pictures as opposed to the historical use of reels of motion picture film

A remaster is a change in the sound or image quality of previously created forms of media, whether audiophonic, cinematic, or videographic. The resulting product is said to be remastered. The terms digital remastering and digitally remastered are also used.

In the context of the film and television industries, to greenlight is to give permission to proceed with a project. It specifically refers to formally approving its production finance and committing to this financing, thereby allowing the project to proceed from the development phase to pre-production and principal photography. The power to greenlight a project is generally reserved to those in a project or financial management role within an organization. The process of taking a project from pitch to green light formed the basis of a successful reality TV show titled Project Greenlight. The

thumb|right|300px|Example of a page from a screenplay formatted for a feature-length film. Screenwriting or scriptwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is often a freelance profession.

dramatic structure

form of audio, video, or image editing only possible with computer technology; succeeding technology of linear editing

short form of digital media production

element of cinematic semiology

technique deployed in filmmaking

commercially distributed computer file containing a media product

type of design